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“Whatever assurances you need, I will give to you. I’ve told you I won’t leave. Multiple times, in fact. I’ve also just told you, in so many words, that my lifeishere.” He closed his eyes, then reopened them slowly. “Last night, I—” His voice broke, and he cleared his throat. “You told me I was a good cat dad. Would you like to know where my mind went?”
I nodded.
“Bloody hell, this is not the way I wanted to do this.”
“Do what?” I managed to say even though I was on the verge of sobbing. Was he ending things between us already? Over a joke about my cat?
He faced me and took both my hands in his. “I want to be more than a cat dad. I want to be a father toourchildren, Samantha. What’s more, I want to marry you. Today, if I believed for one minute you’d have me.”
“What?” I gasped.
“You heard me. I want to marry you and fill that big house that’s about to become yours with as many children as I can convince you to bear.”
I attempted blinking away my tears, but there were too many falling down my cheeks.
“How does that make you feel, Sam? Terrified?”
I shook my head. “Not terrified.”
“What, then?”
“I’m not sure.”
“Samantha.” When his voice cracked again, I ached for him. “Don’t push me away. I beg you.”
“I won’t.”
He squeezed my fingers. “Do you promise?”
“I do.” It wasn’t hard for me to make the vow. I worried more that Beau had gotten caught up in this thing between us and would eventually realize his feelings weren’t as strong as he thought. Then it would be me who’d get pushed away. God knew what I’d do when it happened.
His cell phone rang. “Forgive me, but I must take this.”
“Go ahead,” I responded when I realized he was waiting for me to.
He let go of my hands and faced forward. “Cru, what have you got for me?” Beau paused for several seconds. “That’s excellent. We’ll see you this evening, then. Give my thanks to Burns.”
He ended the call and turned back toward me. “Cru, Snapper, and Kick will be arriving tonight. Another man, Decker Ashford, and his team will be traveling with them. They will implement a security protocol at the Lilacs. We’ll begin with the basics, like constructing an electronic gate and securing the main residence. The system will grow quickly from there.”
I was too stunned to know what to say.
“What I’d like to do now more than anything—not just want, what I feel we both need—is to return to the inn and spend the rest of the day making love.”
God, I wanted that too. “Shouldn’t we try to meet with Hoss first?”
“You’re right. We must.”
“After that, we can spend the rest of the day in bed.”
Beau smiled, leaned forward, put his hand on the back of my neck, and kissed me like he had the first time. Then and now, it ignited my desire for him.
“Ah, I see you didn’t say that just to make me feel better.” He brushed my nipple with the back of his hand. “You’re definitely on board. Perhaps we do have time now. After all, we need to check on Wanda.”
“Yes. Wanda.” While I had trouble communicating a few minutes ago, it was because I was crying too hard. Now, it was lust clouding my ability to say more than two words.
“Oh, Samantha, all the things I want to do to you…”
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